If you’ve ever woken up with an unpleasant taste in your mouth and terrible, smelly breath, you’re not alone. Morning…
It’s hard to resist raw chopped onions on a Coney dog or a big burger with a thin slice of raw onion, but you’d better hope you don’t have to socialize too much after downing these tasty treats.
Battling Bad Breath
As a general rule, bad breath is related to what we drink or eat. As to beverages, alcohol is sure to give you bad breath, coffee does as well. Different cultures have spicy foods, and people who consume these foods on a regular basis, will experience odors, not only emanating from their mouth, but also from their pores.
Listerine, a leading mouthwash manufacturer, says there are five top foods that will give you bad breath – of course, we are familiar with onions and garlic being the biggest culprits, and even canned tuna is no surprise, but horseradish and dairy foods also make your mouth feel a little funky.
Dairy products as a source for bad breath may surprise you, but, while dairy products may be good for your teeth and bones, they make your mouth feel unclean. This is because naturally occurring bacteria from your tongue feeds on the amino acids in dairy products (milk, cottage cheese, yogurt and cheeses), resulting in a foul odor.
A cigarette loosely tangling from your mouth, or cinched between your teeth, is a menacing look to be sure. But, just in case you were wondering, smoking is also a menace to your teeth, besides your general health.
We all know smoking is bad for your health, and, we did not have to read the warning label on the side of the pack to know this fact. There are public service announcements galore which point to the fact that smoking causes cancer.
Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, and, about 70 of them are known to cause cancer. The number one risk of smoking cigarettes is lung cancer, but, smoking is known to affect your entire body. Did you know it can also affect your oral health as well?